Nine-Queen Chess

by Eric Beck

This chess variant was developed for use by members of the Notre Dame Chess Club in Kitchener, Ontario.
It was submitted by Paul DeWitte.Board

The game uses the standard 8X8, 64-cell board.Setup

The end-rank pieces are set up in their standard opening positions. In the second rank, white has eight queens instead of eight pawns. In the seventh rank, black also has eight queens instead of eight pawns.

Pieces

Pieces retain their regular moves. The king is royal. There are nine queens in this game; there are no pawns.Rules

The goal is the same as it is in FIDE chess: a player wins by mating his opponents king.

Regular castling rules are in place; however, castling rarely occurs in this variant.

There are some other things to which you could add cross-references here.
One is the film Nine Queens, as a sizeable number of variants with film
connections (though usually more deliberate than this) is building up.
The
other is the variant Power Chess, alas only shown as an implementation
(http://play.chessvariants.org/erf/PowerChs.html), in which Queens
replace
the Rooks, Bishops, and Knights.

There are some other things to which you could add references here. One is the film Nine Queens, particularly as film-themed variants seem to be coming into fashion again. The other is a variant, whose name escapes me, in which Queens replace the Rooks, Bishops, and Knights. Perhaps someone who can remember the name could post a comment giving it.